Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 09:11:40 -0300 (GMT-0300) From: Roberto Alsina To: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Subject: Re: [opendos] JavaOS for DOS & OD In-Reply-To: <199703131949.NAA10946@topeka.cjnetworks.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net Precedence: bulk On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote: > > It's Sun's Rescue project, which is supposed to give new life to > > `obsolete' computer hardware. However, they've got a very odd idea > > of what's obsolete > > --- > > it only works on 486's and up with, I think, 16MB, but I could be wrong. > > It's actually 486 and 4 MB RAM. Not really good enough from my > perspective either. What Sun or somebody needs to do is put a JavaPU on > an ISA card; however, nobody has talked about that yet as far as I know. Sun actually is designing that thing. It's called the JavaBlaster (Creative Labs is gonna hate it :-). IIRC, retail price should be about $50, launching in August? > > > The OpenDOS multitasker is totally useless for a Java implementation. > > It's too heavy-weight for simple threads. > > Hmmmmmmmmm. Perhaps that's something for the Wish List. If OD > could do Java closer to natively than any other 386/486 OS, I > think that could give OD a huge usefulness in six months or so. > Less, depending on when Corel for Java is released. > > Jonathan E. Brickman River City Computing, Inc. (913) 232-6663 > http://www.cjnetworks.com/~rivercity brickman AT cjnetworks DOT com > This is life. Take it by the whip. > ("\''/").__..-''"`-. . Roberto Alsina `9_ 9 ) `-. ( ).`-._.`) ralsina AT unl DOT edu DOT ar (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._`. " -.-' Centro de Telematica _..`-'_..-_/ /-'_.' Universidad Nacional del Litoral (l)-'' ((i).' ((!.' Santa Fe - Argentina